The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.

Long'an City was originally a base-level city on the border of the Western Empire.

The owner of Longan City is Marquis Michel, who ranks among the top three in the Western Empire Noble Alliance.

Marquis Michel is an expert archer, and he was once a famous superhero in the Western Empire.

The most glorious time was when the Western Empire was just established. The Alliance of Nobles joined forces to wipe out the nobles in the Western Empire who supported the empire.

At that time, the Michelle family owned a total of thirteen cities, including three castle-level cities, and the remaining ten were base-level cities.

The key is that the Michelle family monopolized the entire border trade, so they deliberately occupied Long'an City and Wasteland City bordering the grassland.

In addition to these two cities, the Michelle family also occupied several cities connected to the Northern Empire.

The city adjacent to the Southern Empire was too far away for Michelle to control, so he handed it over to another big family.

Fortunately, the Hell Formation has set its sights on the land in the center of the Western Empire, especially the part adjacent to the Imperial Capital and the Southern Empire.

Although several castles of the Michelle family were taken away by the Hell Camp, they still had a few cities left.

Unfortunately, Michel and several of his heirs were the main targets of Hell and were all killed by Hell's Legion.

As for the rest of the family, having lost their talents and most of their troops, the Long'an City and the Wasteland City that were left behind were snatched away by the heroes who came from the sky.

Like Aini, the nobles of the Western Empire were not very friendly to the heroes who fell from the sky.

As one of the top three families in the Western Empire, the Michelle family deliberately suppressed and exploited many heroes who came from the sky.

Originally this was not a big deal. Under their suppression, those heroes who descended from the Western Empire either became cannon fodder or surrendered to hell.

But the Michel family has collapsed, and the few remaining family members dislike each other and fight for property every day.

In this situation, several heroes who came from heaven discussed with each other and simply gathered more people to merge together. They actually took over the two cities.

Not only did they take over, these heroes sent from heaven, like Xu Lai, treated these two cities as their own foundation and worked hard to manage them.

They divided the work and cooperated with each other to clear out all the resources near the border, including the wild monsters.

Not only in their own territory, but also because of the grassland and the border cities, all the nobles' troops were recruited by Aini.

It can be said that the area near the grassland has long become the back garden of these heroes sent from the sky.

Sometimes, they even ventured into the territory of hell just to obtain more resources.

It's just that Hell doesn't have time to take care of them now, so he lets them grow up secretly.

Not only did he upgrade the two cities to castle level and strengthen the city walls, he also built several arrow towers and more than a dozen catapults.

Unfortunately, they judged that the demons in hell were more threatening, so the limited resources were built on the other side.

Facing the direction of the grassland troops, there are only two arrow towers and two catapults, which is almost no threat.

Xu Lai has a talent for speed, but most of his fellow legionnaires are low-level soldiers.

It’s not that he can’t lead the cavalry ahead, but the legion commander cannot be too far away from the legion, otherwise the legion will automatically disband.

If Xu Lai was in the legion and formed a group of other heroes, they could lead the vanguard troops away from the legion.

Of course, we can't go too far away. It's impossible to get the protection of the Legion even if we are hundreds or thousands of kilometers away.

Xu Lai could neither stay too far away from the legion nor lead low-level troops on a quick march.

Therefore, their team was under close surveillance before approaching Long'an City.

After knowing that the person coming was Xu Lai, the other party actually tried to come over and communicate with Xu Lai, and even wanted to gain some benefits from Xu Lai.

It has been more than a month since Xu Laijianguo came, but unfortunately, these people from Longan City and Wasteland City were not among the invited guests.

It's very simple. The people here go to the grassland to collect money whenever they have time.

It was fine in the past and had nothing to do with Xu Lai. However, before the orcs invaded, all the cities and nobles in the entire grassland had surrendered to Xu Lai.

It might be possible to forgive him before, but after Xu Lai founded the country, he came to ask for money, which was a provocation to the entire Eagle Kingdom.

Xu Lai was worried about having no place to train his troops, and they were right in the crosshairs. How could Xu Lai let them go?

Of course, even though people were not invited, their neighbors all established a country, and they were the first to establish a country as a descendant hero.

The owners of these two allied cities naturally could not help but pay attention and care.

Coincidentally, many of the heroes who were rejected or even driven away by Xu Lai at the beginning came here.

At that time, Xu Lai only had one Qingfeng City, and Qingfeng City at that time was not very powerful.

In addition, they saw that the troops led by Xu were all low-level troops. No matter how many such troops there were, their combat effectiveness was relatively low.

Although the cavalrymen look capable, who would use them to attack a city?

Based on these two considerations, the current owner of Longan City, Jiang Jian, the president of Longan Guild.

He actually brought hundreds of rangers under his command and blocked Xu Lai's way so casually.

“Brother, I heard that you founded a country some time ago?”

Xu Lai looked behind him and saw tens of thousands of cavalry, tens of thousands of infantry, plus logistical support, a total of 100,000 people.

Even though they were located in a vast grassland, with so many troops spread out, they still looked mighty, like a torrent.

Compared with them, the dozens of cavalry guards led by Jiang Jian and the ranger troops of less than 500 people were not even as good as the mantis blocking a chariot.

Xu Lai didn’t know who gave them the confidence, so he just chatted with them briefly.

"A fluke got a congressional drawing."

The person on the other side's eyes lit up. It was not difficult to find out the attributes of Congress.

As a man with ambition and ideals, who had obtained a castle-level city by chance, Jiang Jian had already inquired about the attributes of the Congress.

Apart from anything else, the daily income of 5000-20000 gold coins alone is enough to make people jealous.

Of course, the other party doesn’t know how difficult it is to earn 2 gold coins a day.

Xu Lai owns nearly a hundred cities, a vast territory, a very powerful army, and even a statue of the God of War. Except for its smaller population, he is almost as good as any other big country.

But even so, Congress can only provide more than 10,000 yuan in revenue per day.

“Tell me how you got it and what method you used, brothers.

Don't worry, I know the rules. You just need to share your experience. How about I give you 5 gold coins?"

5 gold coins definitely cannot buy the Congress, but just to introduce the experience of obtaining the blueprint, Jiang Jian believes that 5 is already a very conscientious price.

Xu Lai was stunned, and quietly asked Yu Lan beside him: "This guy, doesn't he know what we are doing?"

Yu Lan covered her mouth and smiled, "What's so strange about this? My dear, you didn't declare war on him. Although this guy has been sending people to our territory to steal things for many years, they just do it quietly and have never had a serious conflict with us.

The ones you brought out are all new recruits, and they might think you found a good place to level up, so they followed us."

Giselle, who was standing by, heard this and said angrily:
"Okay, if we really have found a good place to level up, this guy is following us, probably because he wants to secretly occupy the good place we found.

Xu Lai, say something. No matter how fast they run, I am sure I can catch them all with two or three volleys of fire."

Xu Lai shook his head and said, “Those two are the leaders of Long’an City.

If I kill them now, when the main force arrives, the remaining people might just flee. Where would I be able to train the troops then?"

Having said that, Xu Lai was unwilling to waste time with these people, let alone tell them how he obtained the congressional drawings.

Xu Lai didn’t know whether the temple still had the blueprints, but once he leaked them, the Southern Empire, the Northern Empire and the Eastern Empire would definitely target the temple.

If the Temple takes out another blueprint of Congress, it will be of no benefit to Xu Lai.

Xu Lai waved his hand, and a rain of arrows fell in front of Jiang Jian and the others.

With the Phantom Shooter's strength, it was impossible for him to miss the target. The reason he failed to hit Jiang Jian and the others was purely because Xu Lai did not allow him to hit them.

Xu Lai's meaning was clear, but Jiang Jian seemed very surprised and asked with a puzzled look:

"Brother, what do you mean?"

Xu Lai waved his hand and said, "Who is your brother? Do you know that you are standing on the grassland, the land of the Eagle Country?
I heard that you would bring your troops here to plunder wild monsters and treasure chests at the beginning of every month.

I'm giving you a chance now. If you take out 500 experience books and treasure chests, I can forgive you for all the past.

If you can’t get it out, I’ll have to go to your house and get it myself.”

"You, Mr. Xu, you are really going too far, aren't you?"

Xu Lai sneered and said, "When you robbed other people's cities and resources, why didn't you feel that you were going too far?"

Seeing that the other party was still talking, Xu Lai said again: "If you don't run away now, I will kill you with my sword."

Although Xu Lai was leading a group of new recruits, even with 5 of them, their combat effectiveness was not low.

What's more, Xu Lai's own headquarters still has tens of thousands of cavalry.

After being upgraded to a general, Tahan has not taken any action yet, and he has been eager to charge.

Jiang Jian looked at Xu Lai with gritted teeth. Xu Lai had really guessed right about him. He didn't realize that the army Xu Lai had assembled was to deal with him.

He just subconsciously wanted to get some benefits from Xu Lai. After all, they were all from the same hometown.

As the saying goes, fellow villagers betray fellow villagers and shoot them in the back.

"Hmph, don't be complacent. Don't think you're that powerful just because you have tens of thousands of troops. They're just a bunch of rabble."

After saying that, without giving Xu Lai a chance to retort, he just ran away with his men.

Xu Lai was not a man who would suffer a loss, so he signaled Giselle and the others to launch another rain of arrows.

This rain of arrows fell right next to Jiang Jian and his men, just a few tenths of a meter away, scaring them so much that they slapped their horses' bellies desperately.

Xu Lai originally thought that after being scared by him, Jiang Jian and the others should just defend the city obediently no matter what.

However, they did not expect that after two days of marching, when the large army arrived at the city of Long'an, the enemy had already deployed their troops outside the city.

When he first arrived, Xu Lai was stunned. He really couldn't figure out where these guys got their confidence from.

The opposing force was not large, only 3000 men, but they were all cavalry, and those in the front did not look simple.

Xu Lai's eyesight is pretty good, and even without the Eagle Eye technique, he can still see roughly everything.

The one hundred knights in the front row were all heavily armored knights wearing luxurious equipment.

It is not easy to train a heavy-armored knight. It is not easy to upgrade the rank of an ordinary knight, and the skills will not be improved much due to the upgrade.

The key is that people are generally reluctant to buy them top-level equipment.

As for recruiting knights, their skill levels are good, but their attributes are too fixed, and they are equipped with blank equipment, so they can't stand out.

The other party had obviously been waiting for a long time, and before Xu could see clearly, they launched a charge.

However, the direction of their charge was not towards Xu Lai, but towards the formation of the Qingfeng Legion.

With Xu Lai's chivalrous spirit, tens of thousands of knights lined up on both wings of the Qingfeng Legion in order to cover the two wings and prevent enemies from disturbing them from the sides.

The front that Xu Lai deliberately left behind was to give the new recruits of the Qingfeng Corps more combat opportunities.

In the Qingfeng Army, Giselle quickly contacted Xu Lai and asked:

"Xu Lai, should we shoot?"

The main combat tasks were given to the new recruits. Xu Lai's task for Gisele and the others was to sweep away the long-range units on the city walls.

However, before they even got close to the city wall, the enemy actually launched a charge first.

To be honest, Xu Lai was indeed caught off guard.

The recruits he brought with him were not recruited soldiers, but soldiers who were going to the battlefield for the first time. Before that, they were just conscripted soldiers from the peasants.

These guys can't be relied upon no matter how high their morale is.

If they were defeated head-on, there might really be a mass rout, causing Xu Lai to fail.

"Shoot. Aim at the heroes in front wearing luxurious equipment. Shoot them all to death first."

Xu Lai had no time to hesitate. The knights were charging too fast. Every second of delay could mean losing a chance to shoot. He gave the order decisively immediately.

Now we would rather let the enemy collapse and lose some experience than let our own army collapse.

The number of phantom shooters is not large. Among the more than one thousand phantom troops, more than 600 have been promoted to level 7 or 8.

There were only about 800 Phantom Shooters left, including the group that Giselle had just trained in the past month.

But even if there are only more than 800 phantom archers, each with one arrow and an average of 3 phantom arrows, a total of more than 3000 arrows will fly out.

Xu Lai raised the Sword of the Prophet, and the glory of the Angel Alliance was spread to the entire army the moment the enemy launched the attack.

The Phantom Archers, with their morale high, became incredibly powerful after being enhanced by prayer and ultimate archery.

In particular, Xu Lai requested that the fire be concentrated on the knights in front. After this round of rain of arrows, at least half of the knights were shot to death.

The remaining half were also shot into hedgehogs, but unfortunately their equipment was too good and reduced damage so much that they survived even though they were shot into hedgehogs. (End of this chapter)